DAUGHTER OF DARING: OUT FEBRUARY 2025!

 
 

From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.

Helen Gibson was willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentieth-century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars. Her exploits on motorcycles, train cars, and horseback were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serials--yet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and male-dominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.

Award-winning author Mallory O'Meara presents her life and career in exhilarating detail, including:

  • Helen's rise to fame in The Hazards of Helen, the longest-running serial in history

  • How Helen became the first-ever stuntwoman in American film

  • The pivotal role of Helen's contemporaries--including female directors, stars, and stuntwomen who shaped the making of cinema as we know it.

    Through the page-turning story of Helen's pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.

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“A wide-ranging rodeo of a book that starts as the cliffhanger
biography of Helen Gibson and quickly becomes a women-first history of
Hollywood that comes at you as fast and powerful as a runaway train." — NYT Bestselling Author Grady Hendrix

“The book was as vivacious and thrilling as the career it tracks. An inspiring reminder that as women in Hollywood, we're not carving a path - we're reminding the world of our legacy. It was a fast-paced and fun history of Hollywood roped together by the amazing life of Helen Gibson. Seriously made me proud to be a woman working in film.” - Filmmaker and CAMGIRL Author Isa Mazzei